The structure of a novel insecticidal neurotoxin, ω-atracotoxin-HV1, from the venom of an Australian funnel web spider

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 559-566

  Fletcher, Jamie I ^a   Smith, Ross ^b   O'Donoghue, Séan I ^c   Nilges, Michael ^c   Connor, Mark ^a   Howden, Merlin E H ^a   Christie, Macdonald J ^a   King, Glenn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; INSECTICIDE; NEUROTOXIN; OMEGA AGATOXIN; OMEGA ATRACOTOXIN HV1; OMEGA CONOTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; DISULFIDE BOND; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CYSTEINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLIOMA; INSECTS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROTOXINS; PERIPLANETA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDER VENOMS; SULFIDES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ARANEAE; DIPLURIDAE; HADRONYCHE VERSUTA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030981657     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0797-559     Document Type: Article

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